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“horse warrior”
Language contexts for this entry: Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian Nynorsk and 1 more
/²juːar/ · Norwegian Nynorsk
01 / Meaning & origin
Joar is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian Nynorsk and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Jóarr. Swedish Wikipedia gives the meaning “horse warrior”.
Meaning: “horse warrior”
jo + -ar; from Old Norse Jóarr, from jór (“horse”) + herr (“army”), or a variant of Jógeirr, from geirr (“spear”). Cognate with Old Swedish Iōar.
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Spain, 2025: 58 male (rank 12767). Documented as a given name in Spanish.
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03 / By the numbers
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1945–2025 Spelling: Joar
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 15 | 217 | observed |
| 1946 | 16 | 209 | observed |
| 1947 | 13 | 227 | observed |
| 1948 | 17 | 199 | observed |
| 1949 | 14 | 220 | observed |
| 1950 | 22 | 180 | observed |
| 1951 | 25 | 163 | observed |
| 1952 | 18 | 195 | observed |
| 1953 | 12 | 242 | observed |
| 1954 | 25 | 168 | observed |
| 1955 | 12 | 241 | observed |
| 1956 | 22 | 187 | observed |
| 1957 | 18 | 207 | observed |
| 1958 | 23 | 182 | observed |
| 1959 | 18 | 206 | observed |
| 1960 | 25 | 182 | observed |
| 1961 | 18 | 211 | observed |
| 1962 | 30 | 164 | observed |
| 1963 | 19 | 226 | observed |
| 1964 | 13 | 279 | observed |
| 1965 | 29 | 180 | observed |
| 1966 | 29 | 185 | observed |
| 1967 | 26 | 201 | observed |
| 1968 | 17 | 244 | observed |
| 1969 | 28 | 199 | observed |
| 1970 | 20 | 240 | observed |
| 1971 | 27 | 206 | observed |
| 1972 | 22 | 234 | observed |
| 1973 | 37 | 181 | observed |
| 1974 | 22 | 237 | observed |
| 1975 | 28 | 203 | observed |
| 1976 | 22 | 235 | observed |
| 1977 | 22 | 231 | observed |
| 1978 | 28 | 214 | observed |
| 1979 | 17 | 273 | observed |
| 1980 | 22 | 240 | observed |
| 1981 | 31 | 197 | observed |
| 1982 | 31 | 200 | observed |
| 1983 | 25 | 225 | observed |
| 1984 | 27 | 214 | observed |
| 1985 | 18 | 279 | observed |
| 1986 | 25 | 233 | observed |
| 1987 | 19 | 260 | observed |
| 1988 | 21 | 247 | observed |
| 1989 | 17 | 280 | observed |
| 1990 | 16 | 299 | observed |
| 1991 | 24 | 236 | observed |
| 1992 | 26 | 234 | observed |
| 1993 | 12 | 329 | observed |
| 1994 | 24 | 231 | observed |
| 1995 | 14 | 294 | observed |
| 1996 | 21 | 239 | observed |
| 1997 | 25 | 210 | observed |
| 1998 | 11 | 338 | observed |
| 1999 | 20 | 235 | observed |
| 2000 | 21 | 239 | observed |
| 2001 | 11 | 316 | observed |
| 2002 | 13 | 284 | observed |
| 2003 | 7 | 421 | observed |
| 2004 | 6 | 432 | observed |
| 2005 | 18 | 243 | observed |
| 2006 | 12 | 310 | observed |
| 2007 | 10 | 360 | observed |
| 2008 | 12 | 336 | observed |
| 2009 | 7 | 445 | observed |
| 2010 | 5 | 489 | observed |
| 2011 | 7 | 422 | observed |
| 2012 | 14 | 300 | observed |
| 2013 | 11 | 353 | observed |
| 2014 | 8 | 405 | observed |
| 2015 | 8 | 395 | observed |
| 2016 | 9 | 376 | observed |
| 2017 | 7 | 418 | observed |
| 2018 | 15 | 275 | observed |
| 2019 | 9 | 356 | observed |
| 2020 | 11 | 296 | observed |
| 2021 | 14 | 265 | observed |
| 2022 | 11 | 308 | observed |
| 2023 | 13 | 297 | observed |
| 2024 | 9 | 354 | observed |
| 2025 | 14 | 274 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Joar” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
JOAR— “horse warrior”
Hengst seems to have been used for the male, horse for the female; but _jor_ in the North, _ehu_ in Old German, _ehvus_ in Gothic, meant both horse and mare; and this _jor_, or sometimes only the _jo_, is not uncommon in Norsk names, as Jogeir, Jofred, Jogrim, Jostein, or flower of chivalry, Johar or Joar, horse warrior, Joketyll, or Jokell. The women were, Jora, Jodis, Jofrid, Joreid, Jorunna, all, be it remembered, being pronounced as with a _y_.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter III (Names From Objects Connected With Mythology), Section V (The Horse) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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